The attached document examines the recent history of spending by the Kansas state government, charting the growth in tax receipts and expenditures. This policy primer illustrates why our state has a problem with spending not with incoming revenue, and gives you an indication as to what kind of budget situation our legislators will be dealing with come January 2010.

Last week we learned that the state will again withhold tax return refunds because the state’s checking account has dried up. State Sen. Jeff Colyer and Kansas Revenue Secretary Joan Wagnon will discuss this situation at an Emergency Town Hall meeting tomorrow night in Olathe.

When we think about the taxes we pay, the first to come to mind are generally the obvious taxes: sales, property, income. But what about the “back door” taxes – millions of dollars that are generated each year that generally don't garner much attention from the average taxpayer?

Please join the Topeka Chapter of Americans for Prosperity-Kansas for this month’s chapter meeting. Please note the new meeting location: conference room of the Hayden Building, downtown.

The topic will be health care: free market health care vs. universal health care, and what those types of health care mean for you and your family.

• Topeka Area Chapter Meeting
• 7 p.m.
• Tuesday, May 19
• Hayden Building (212 SW 8th Street), Lower Level Conference Room

RSVP to Phillis Setchell, p.setchell@gmail.com.